The Healing Time of Hickeys
Publisher: Raincoast Books, Polestar
Published: January 26, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781551926001
Subjects: Social Issues - Adolescence; Fiction; Juvenile Fiction; Children's 12-Up - Fiction - General; Children: Young Adult (Gr. 10-12); Juvenile Fiction / Social Situations / Adolescence; Diaries; High schools
First sentence: Tuesday, September 3, 2002 or The First Day of The Greatest Year of My Life (I Hope) ...
Description: Haley Andromeda is 16, and in her last year of high school - "The Greatest Year of My Life," or TGYML. Haley likes to think she's just a normal girl, plagued with all the normal doubts of a too-smart-for-her-own-good, slightly hypochondriac, hickey-prone teenager. But part way through the year, disaster strikes: Haley comes down with chickenpox; her best friend Jules won't speak to her; the object of her affections, a boy named J. T., won't even look at her; and worst of all, her harmless hippie Dad is in some mysterious trouble with the law. In desperation, Haley turns to the Ouija board and tries to communicate with the Other Side, but this leads to a further, unexpected complication: Why does the dead boy she channels seem more attractive than the real boy who wants to spend time with her?